802.11 cards may have different country IE parsing behavioural
preferences and vendors may want to support these. These preferences
were managed by the WIPHY_FLAG_CUSTOM_REGULATORY and the
WIPHY_FLAG_STRICT_REGULATORY flags and their combination.
Instead of using this existing notation, split out the country
IE behavioural preferences to a new flag. This will allow
us to add more customizations easily and make the code more
maintainable
Cc: Henri Bahini <hbahini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tushnim Bhattacharyya <tushnimb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mihir Shete <smihir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/regd.c | 1 +
include/net/cfg80211.h | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
net/wireless/reg.c | 8 +++-----
4 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/regd.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/regd.c
index 7d077c7..cbf074c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/regd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/regd.c
@@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ ath_regd_init_wiphy(struct ath_regulatory *reg,
*/
regd = ath_world_regdomain(reg);
wiphy->flags |= WIPHY_FLAG_CUSTOM_REGULATORY;
+ wiphy->country_ie_pref = NL80211_COUNTRY_IE_FOLLOW_POWER;
} else {
/*
* This gets applied in the case of the absence of CRDA,
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 45f6bf5..9dd71f2 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -2430,19 +2430,25 @@ struct cfg80211_ops {
* has its own custom regulatory domain and cannot identify the
* ISO / IEC 3166 alpha2 it belongs to. When this is enabled
* we will disregard the first regulatory hint (when the
- * initiator is %REGDOM_SET_BY_CORE).
- * @WIPHY_FLAG_STRICT_REGULATORY: tells us the driver for this device will
- * ignore regulatory domain settings until it gets its own regulatory
- * domain via its regulatory_hint() unless the regulatory hint is
- * from a country IE. After its gets its own regulatory domain it will
- * only allow further regulatory domain settings to further enhance
- * compliance. For example if channel 13 and 14 are disabled by this
- * regulatory domain no user regulatory domain can enable these channels
- * at a later time. This can be used for devices which do not have
- * calibration information guaranteed for frequencies or settings
- * outside of its regulatory domain. If used in combination with
- * WIPHY_FLAG_CUSTOM_REGULATORY the inspected country IE power settings
- * will be followed.
+ * initiator is %REGDOM_SET_BY_CORE). wiphys can set the custom
+ * regulatory domain using wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory()
+ * prior to wiphy registration.
+ * @WIPHY_FLAG_STRICT_REGULATORY: tells us that the wiphy for this device
+ * has regulatory domain that it wishes to be considered as the
+ * superset for regulatory rules. After this device gets its regulatory
+ * domain programmed further regulatory hints shall only be considered
+ * for this device to enhance regulatory compliance, forcing the
+ * device to only possibly use subsets of the original regulatory
+ * rules. For example if channel 13 and 14 are disabled by this
+ * device's regulatory domain no user specified regulatory hint which
+ * has these channels enabled would enable them for this wiphy,
+ * the device's original regulatory domain will be trusted as the
+ * base. You can program the superset of regulatory rules for this
+ * wiphy with regulatory_hint() for cards programmed with an
+ * ISO3166-alpha2 country code. wiphys that use regulatory_hint()
+ * will have their wiphy->regd programmed once the regulatory
+ * domain is set, and all other regulatory hints will be ignored
+ * until their own regulatory domain gets programmed.
* @WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_BEACON_HINTS: enable this if your driver needs to ensure
* that passive scan flags and beaconing flags may not be lifted by
* cfg80211 due to regulatory beacon hints. For more information on beacon
@@ -2773,6 +2779,8 @@ struct wiphy_coalesce_support {
* 802.11-2012 8.4.2.29 for the defined fields.
* @extended_capabilities_mask: mask of the valid values
* @extended_capabilities_len: length of the extended capabilities
+ * @country_ie_pref: country IE processing preferences specified
+ * by enum nl80211_country_ie_pref
* @coalesce: packet coalescing support information
*/
struct wiphy {
@@ -2844,6 +2852,8 @@ struct wiphy {
const u8 *extended_capabilities, *extended_capabilities_mask;
u8 extended_capabilities_len;
+ u8 country_ie_pref;
+
/* If multiple wiphys are registered and you're handed e.g.
* a regular netdev with assigned ieee80211_ptr, you won't
* know whether it points to a wiphy your driver has registered
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index fde2c02..977c487 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -2321,6 +2321,35 @@ enum nl80211_reg_type {
};
/**
+ * enum nl80211_country_ie_pref - country IE processing preferences
+ *
+ * enumerates the different preferences an 802.11 card can advertize
+ * for parsing the country IEs. As per the current implementation
+ * country IEs are only used to derive the ISO3166-apha2, the
+ * information for power settings that comes with the country IE is
+ * ignored and we use the power settings from regdb.
+ *
+ * @NL80211_COUNTRY_IE_FOLLOW_CORE - This is the default behaviour
+ * for drivers that do not advertize any preference to handle
+ * the country IE. It allows the core to update channel flags
+ * according to the ISO3166-alpha2 in the country IE.
+ * The applied power is -
+ * MIN(power specified by custom domain, power obtained from regdb)
+ * @NL80211_COUNTRY_IE_FOLLOW_POWER - for devices that have a
+ * preference that even though they may have programmed their own
+ * custom power setting prior to wiphy registration, they want
+ * to ensure their channel power settings are updated for this
+ * connection with the power settings derived from the regulatory
+ * domain. The regulatory domain used will be based on the
+ * ISO3166-alpha2 from country IE provided through
+ * regulatory_hint_country_ie()
+ */
+enum nl80211_country_ie_pref {
+ NL80211_COUNTRY_IE_FOLLOW_CORE,
+ NL80211_COUNTRY_IE_FOLLOW_POWER = BIT(0),
+};
+
+/**
* enum nl80211_reg_rule_attr - regulatory rule attributes
* @__NL80211_REG_RULE_ATTR_INVALID: attribute number 0 is reserved
* @NL80211_ATTR_REG_RULE_FLAGS: a set of flags which specify additional
diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c
index d62cb1e..87b4ee3 100644
--- a/net/wireless/reg.c
+++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
@@ -898,13 +898,11 @@ static void handle_channel(struct wiphy *wiphy,
chan->max_reg_power = (int) MBM_TO_DBM(power_rule->max_eirp);
if (chan->orig_mpwr) {
/*
- * Devices that have their own custom regulatory domain
- * but also use WIPHY_FLAG_STRICT_REGULATORY will follow the
- * passed country IE power settings.
+ * Devices that use NL80211_COUNTRY_IE_FOLLOW_POWER will always
+ * follow the passed country IE power settings.
*/
if (initiator == NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE &&
- wiphy->flags & WIPHY_FLAG_CUSTOM_REGULATORY &&
- wiphy->flags & WIPHY_FLAG_STRICT_REGULATORY)
+ wiphy->country_ie_pref & NL80211_COUNTRY_IE_FOLLOW_POWER)
chan->max_power = chan->max_reg_power;
else
chan->max_power = min(chan->orig_mpwr,
--
1.8.2.1
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